Pangasinan’s best athletes of 2011 By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. SORRY guys if you missed my column last week. I was not able to beat The PUNCH deadline which fell on a Thursday (December 29), not remembering that the following day was Dr. Jose Rizal’s day, a national holiday. My…

Cyclists Barnachea, Catalan deserve recognition By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. YEAR 2012 promises to be a most memorable year for us sports devotees because it’s an Olympic year, with the games set in London, England. And I’m sure those athletes I saw during the First Youth Olympic Games staged in…

Segura and Viloria  By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. YOU and I saw the fight. You watched it on TV but I watched it personally at Ynares Sports Arena in Pasig City last Sunday. We saw how the Narvacan, Ilocos Sur-born Brian Viloria scored a devastating eight round stoppage over the…

Controversy in PRISAA gold medal match By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. I WAS officially invited so I attended the news conference of the PBA Legends/Movie Stars Goodwill Games held at Lyceum Northwestern University (LNU) multipurpose hall last Tuesday. Initially, I thought of not going because I anticipated that two of…

PH team should be overhauled  By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. THE TWO top honchos of sports in the country, Philippine Olympic Committee president Jose “Peping” Cojuangco and Philippine Sports Commission chairman Richie Garcia, bragged and made a rosy forecast that our national athletes will win at least 70 gold medals…

Mixed opinions By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. WE saw the fight and we all know how our compatriot and world boxing icon Manny Pacquiao won via a majority decision over his long-time nemesis Juan Manuel Marquez of Mexico to retain his World Boxing Organization diadem. The verdict of the two…

Pacquiao-Marquez 3 the final chapter? By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. I’M making this piece two days before the much-awaited and much-ballyhooed Pacquiao-Marquez boxing trilogy. And by the time you read this I surmise that talks about this boxing blockbuster could still be in progress. But as of this writing my…

Visiting Cebu again By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. CEBU CITY – I’M making this piece in this beautiful and booming place in our country’s south. This is my seventh visit here since 1966, during my cycling heydays and once placed third in the 1977 Tour of Cebu that our provincemate…

A shame to boxing By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. I BELIEVE you boxing aficionados were glued to your seats during the much-hyped WBC/WBO bantamweight title fight between our very own Nonito Donaire Jr. and Argentinian Omar Narvaez. Yes, I was too. But what we long anticipated to be an interesting…

Re-varnished Barnachea  By Jesus A. Garcia, Jr.   SORRY guys if you missed my column last week because I run out of time to catch the press deadline as I was in Baguio City following the crucial and decisive 10th stage of the 2011 LBC Ronda Pilipinas Tour participated in by…